vivid-red

If I have quite a lot to drink I will be totally depressed the next day even if I don't have any other hangover symptoms...

It's just unbearable, but I do have other mental health issues so I don't know if it affects other people this way?

This is another good reason I should stay sober.

vivid-red

It's like I can physically feel the depression as well as mentally if that makes any sense....

anew

Yes...another reason why never drinking again is a good idea.

Lenina

Yes, absolutely I could feel the depression from drinking. It was probably the worst of the hangover syndrome for me. Alcohol is toxic and poisons our bodies.

Love,

Lenina

Fandy

I have been treated for major depression also. Drinking absolutely makes it worse, especially if i'm upset about something to begin with...and thought that drinking would erase my feelings.

along with a barfy hangover comes huge feelings of anxiety and feeling very low .....to the point where I am wasting what could be a wonderful day in my life...

you are correct, another reason to stay sober!

Scolova

Yes, absolutely horrible for me too, and is yet another thing I keep in my mind as I recover.

Good Luck.

UniqueNewYork

Yes. I become one of those people who makes threads about tsunami victims and **** when I drink. Its the alcohol it happens to all of us.

azureseas

Yup, its a depressant, hadn't actually realized that, should be in the fine print
I'm coming up to 1 month and feel sooo good now. I'm sure it was the drinking that was contributing toward my low grade depression,
I never got meds for it as they scared me even though I was quite happy to load up on a bottle of wine most nights

kmkluvr1

Yes, alcohol is a depressant, i see this also in my ABF, after a night of drinking, the next day he was very quiet, and down, not sick or anything just.....down in the dumps.

CarolD

The final 5 years I drank...depression was daily...

When my doctor diagnosed me with situational depression
he suggested I abstain and connect to AA.

I've followed his directions for a long time...been working
great for me......

AmericanGirl

Yes, I experienced heavy depression after heavy drinking. It's not 100% perfect now that I've quit, but it's A LOT better.

Zencat

Hangovers are a good way for me to get instant depression. I take psych med's and drinking directly counters their effects.

LaFemme

Seems like there is a consensus

When I drank depression was a constant battle. Today I would say clinical depression is 0 but like most human beings I do occasionally feel sad

tomdecel

Thank you for this post. I came here to get a little kick in the rear end.

I am somewhere between 6 and 7 months without any problems and I have to attend a funeral~celebrate life service this weekend for a close friend of my wife. I agreed to go with her not realizing it was in a.... winery..... As soon as I realized that, that little voice has gotten into my head for the first time in a months and it just won't go away.

Now I can close my eyes and visualize this: one glass of wine equals 10 points of depression for me the next day. No way do I want to that depressed. Little voice go away. It is not OK to just have one.

Thanks.

Fandy

you might want to tote a good substitute beverage with you...just in case the only thing there is wine....and offer to be the driver.

Fandy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eva-no...oga-depression

I thought this might be an interesting article to read, but the link won't copy. you can find it through the host site.

LaFemme

Huffpo seems to have a lot of good articles about the negatives of alcohol consumption it seems.

soidog

Yup. For a while I would just binge only on weekends, drinking Friday night, and pretty much all day and night on Saturday and Sunday. Not only was work on Monday a total hell, but I was acutely depressed until about Wednesday until the majority of alcohol physically left my system. I'd feel good again on Thursday and Friday, and then I'd start all over again.

justdave

Me too. I never realized how depressed I was until I quit drinking. Even though my world at home is in turmoil, I'm not feeling depressed. I'm just dealing with it and moving forward.

Ethos23

My whole drinking career was one big depressed period. The only variance was the degree of depression. I was in a depressed fog and could not, for the life of me, convince myself that I would feel better if I stopped. I DO NOT miss those days.